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Highlights last updated: March 2015

A Destination University

Emory: A Destination University

Emory University• One of the world's leading centers for discovery and learning• Empowers the active, passionate pursuit of learning for a

better world

Atlanta, Georgia • Cultural and financial center of the South• One of the nation's most international cities• Georgia is home to twenty Fortune 500 headquarters,

including The Coca-Cola Company and The Home Depot; many companies on the list have offices here.

Emory Healthcare• The university is home to Georgia's largest and most

comprehensive health care system

Top Rankings

Graduate and professional school ranking highlights (U.S. News & World Report)• Goizueta Business School: No. 21 (2016)• School of Law: No. 19 (2016)• School of Medicine: No. 23 overall (2016)• Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing: No. 10

(2016)• Rollins School of Public Health: No. 7 (2016)

Goizueta Business School's BBA program• No. 9 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek (2014)• No. 13 in U.S. News & World Report (2014)

Award-Winning Students

• Emory students are well represented among competitive academic programs

• Fulbright Fellowship• Goldwater Scholarship• Luce Scholar• Marshall Scholarship• National Science Foundation Fellowship• NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship• Rhodes Scholarship

More than 96 student athletes have been awarded NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships

Breakthrough Research

Total research funding awards• $521.8 million, FY2014

HIV research leader• More than nine in 10 HIV patients in the United States who are

on lifesaving therapy take Emerita (emtricitabine) or 3TC (lamivudine), both drugs created at Emory

Drug and vaccine discovery• Named the nation's fourth largest contributor to the discovery

of new drugs and vaccines by public-sector research institutions, by a study in the New England Journal of Medicine

Distinguished Professors

• Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter

• His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama

• Pulitzer Prize-winners Natasha Trethewey and Hank Klibanoff

• Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Jeffrey Koplan

• CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Famous Alumni

• About 137,000 alumni living in all 50 states and more than 160 countries

Emory alumni since 1836 include a U.S. vice president, a Supreme Court justice, U.S. senators and representatives, governors, university presidents, philanthropists, Pulitzer Prize winners, entrepreneurs, entertainers and an astronaut

Points of Pride

See more highlights of Emory's points of distinction on the university's main website:

Emory University website's Points of Pride sectionhttp://www.emory.edu/home/about/points-pride/